Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 2

Anterior cruciate ligament injury rehabilitation – An overview of reviews

  • Author:
  • Binu S. Das, S. Narasimman
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 37 to 39

Department of Physiotherapy, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

AbbreviationsACL

Anterior Cruciate Ligament

OKC

Open Kinematic Chain

CKC

Closed Kinematic Chain

CPM

Continuous Passive Movement

Abstract

Anterior Cruciate ligament injuries are commonest among the soft tissue injuries around knee. Rehabilitation following ACL injuries always has been a challenging one for the physiotherapists. Literature reviews are considered as potential source of knowledge.

A structured review was conducted to find out the efficacy of various protocols of ACL injury rehabilitation in various electronic databases. Three reviews with different qualities were retrieved.

This paper gives an overview of three reviews about the Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury rehabilitation. This is strengthening the knowledge in ACL injury rehabilitation and guides towards the future research in ACL injury Rehabilitation

Keywords

ACL Injury, Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, Exercises